2genres of Lit

GENRES
of
Philippine
Literature
Ms. Merafel Grace S. Abule
University of Mindanao Digos College
What are the 2 Major
Literary Genres?
2 DIVISIONS OF LITERATURE
1. Poetry
2. Prose
Differentiate PROSE from
POETRY according to:
 FORM
 LANGUAGE
 APPEAL
 AIM
PROPERTY PROSE POETRY
Form Written in paragraph form Written in stanza or

verse form
Language Expressed in ordinary form Expressed in
figurative language
Appeal To the intellect To the emotion
Aim To convince Stir the imagination
and set an idea how
life should be.
PROSE
- consists of those written within the
common flow of conversation in
sentences and paragraphs.
TYPES OF PROSE
1. Prose Drama
2. Essay
3. Prose Fiction
1. Novel
2. Short Story
4. Biography and Autobiography
5. Letter
6. Diary
7. Journal
PROSE DRAMA
 a drama in prose form.
 It consists entirely dialogues in prose, and
is meant to be act on stage.
ESSAY
- a short literary composition which is
expository in nature.
- The author shares his thoughts
feelings, experiences, or observations
on some aspects of life that has
interested him.
PROSE FICTION
- something invented, imagined, or
feigned to be true
NOVEL
 a long fiction narrative with a
complicated plot.
 It may have one main plot and one or
more sub plots that develop with the
main plot.
 It is made up of chapters.
SHORT STORY
 a fictitious narrative compressed into one
unit of time, place and action.
 It deals with single character interest, a
single emotion or series of emotions called
forth by a single.
 It is distinguished from the novel by its
compression.
BIOGRAPHY
&
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
 a story of a certain person’s life
written by another who knows the
subject well.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
 a written account of man’s life
written by himself.
LETTER
 a written message which displays aspects of an
author’s physiological make-up not immediately
apparent in his more public writings.
 It is a prose form which by the force of its style
and the importance of its statements becomes
an object of interest in its own right.
DIARY
 a daily written record of account of the
writer’s own experiences, thoughts,
activities or observations.
JOURNAL
 a magazine or periodical especially of
serious or learned nature.
 It is the reflection, opinion of a read
material.
POETRY
 Poetry is literature in meter form.
 It is a form of written word that has
pattern and rhythm and rhyme.
 It can be serious or it can be fun.
Poetry is as creative as you make it.
Percy Byshe Shelley
 “Poetry is the record of the best
and happiest moments of the
happiest and best minds.”
TYPES OF POETRY
1. Narrative Poetry
1. Epic
3. Dramatic Poetry
2. Metrical Poem 1. Comedy
3. Metrical Tale 2. Melodrama
4. Ballad
3. Farce
5. Metrical Allegory
2. Lyric Poetry 4. Tragedy
1. Ode
2. Elegy
3. Song
4. Sonnet
5. Psalms
6. Corridos
1. NARRATIVE POETRY
 A poem that tells a story
 This form describes important events
in life either real or imaginary.
1.1 EPIC
 a long narrative poem of the largest
proportions.
 This is an extended narrative about heroic
exploits often under supernatural control.
1.2 METRICAL POEM
 a narrative poem that tells a story of
adventure, love and chivalry.
 The Typical hero is a knight on a
quest.
1.3 METRICAL TALE
 This is a narrative which is written in verse and can
be classified either as a ballad or a metrical romance.
 a narrative poem consisting usually a single series
connective events that are simple, and generally do
not form a plot.
 Examples of these are simple idylls or home tales,
love tales, tales of the supernatural or tales written for
a strong moral purpose in verse form.
1.4 BALLAD
 the simplest type of narrative poetry.
 It is short narrative poem telling a single
incident in simple meter and stanzas.
 It is meant to be sung.
 In the early time, this referred to a song
accompanying a dance.
1.5 METRICAL ALLEGORY
 an extended narrative that carries a
second meaning along worth the
surface story.
2. LYRIC POETRY
 a poem that is very personal in nature.
 It expresses the author’s own
thoughts, feelings, moods and
reflections in musical language.
 It derived its name from the musical
instrument, the lyre.
2.1 ODE
 a lyric poem of some length, serious in
subject and dignified in style.
 It is most majestic of the lyric poems.
 It is written in a spirit of praise of some
persons or things.
2.2 ELEGY
 a poem written on the death of a friend of
the poet.
 The ostensible purpose is to praise the
friend.
 But in the end of the poem, however, we
can expect that poet will have come to
terms with his grief.
2.3 SONG
 a lyric poem in a regular metrical
pattern set to music.
 These have twelve syllables and
slowly sung to the accompaniment of a
guitar or banduria.
2.4 SONNET
 a lyric poem containing four iambic
pentameter lines, and a complicated
rhyme.
 This is a lyric poem of 14 lines dealing with
an emotion, a feeling, or an idea.
 These are two types: the Italian and the
Shakespearean.
2.5 PSALMS
 This is a song praising God or the
Virgin Mary and containing a
philosophy of life.
2.6 CORRIDOS
 These have measures of eight
syllables (octosyllabic) and recited
to a martial beat.
 Example: IBONG ADARNA

3. DRAMATIC POETRY
 Dramatic poetry is any drama that
is written in verse that is meant to
be recited.
 It usually tells a story or refers to a
situation.
3.1 MELODRAMA
 This is usually used in musical plays with
the opera.
 Today, this is related to tragedy just as the
farce is to comedy.
 It arouses immediate and intense emotion
and is usually sad but there is a happy
ending for the principal character.
3.2 COMEDY
 The word comedy comes from the
Greek term “komos” meaning festivity
or revelry.
 This form usually is light and written
with the purpose of amusing, and
usually has a happy ending.
3.3 TRAGEDY
 This involves the hero struggling
mightily against dynamic forces; he
meets death or ruin without success
and satisfaction obtained by the
protagonist in a comedy.
3.4 FARCE
 This is an exaggerated comedy.
 It seeks to arouse mirth by laughable
lines; situations are too ridiculous to be
true; the characters seem to be
caricatures and the motives
undignified and absurd.

RETENTION
CHECK!
Directions:
Make a conceptual map using the literary terms below.
Novel Ode Farce
Lyric Corridos Metrical Tale
Epic Poetry Prose Fiction

Biography Melodrama Narrative
Dramatic Elegy Prose

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